Tuesday's sentencing to 30 months in prison of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby by a federal judge for lying to government investigators about his role in leaking the identity of a CIA operative marks the latest in a series of blows to Vice President Dick Cheney....
Any doubts that the U.S. is engaged in a colonial adventure in Iraq – because we're "liberators," not imperialists – ought to be permanently dispelled now that top administration officials are holding up the "Korean model" as a framework...
Following revelations of a George W. Bush administration policy to hold Iran responsible for any al-Qaeda attack on the U.S. that could be portrayed as planned on Iranian soil, former national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski warned last week that Washington might...
Soon after the invasion of Iraq was launched, war supporters and critics alike, in a bow to the Vietnam era, began to speak referentially of the "Q-word" – for "quagmire," of course. By now, Iraq has had that administration-inspired "Q" hung firmly around its...
The war in Iraq is lost. This fact is widely recognized by American military officers and has been recently expressed forcefully by Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, the commander of U.S. forces in Iraq during the first year of the attempted occupation. Winning is no longer...
Last week, Andrew Speaker – an Atlanta, Ga., personal injury lawyer with XDR-TB, a form of tuberculosis that is resistant to almost all antibiotics – created a big health scare by exposing fellow travelers to a dangerous infection. Speaker flew from Atlanta...
Abraham Lincoln, it would seem, is in the midst of a career revival. In recent years, the 16th president has been praised by the likes of author Doris Kearns Goodwin, and Lincoln boosterism has been prominently featured on high-traffic political blogs such as Power...
Updated at 12:46 a.m. EDT, June 6, 2007At least 105 Iraqis were killed or found dead and 87 were wounded during today's reported incidents. An American soldier was killed during a small arms attack today in a southern section of the capital. The U.S. military reported...
Good intentions frequently lead to unintended bad consequences. Tough choices, doing what is right, often leads to unanticipated good results. The growing demand by the American people for us to leave Iraq prompts the nay-sayers to predict disaster in the Middle East...
The Bush administration has decided its new model for a long-term solution in Iraq is Korea. It's an attempt to stifle the inevitable comparisons of the Iraq quagmire to Vietnam and a way to justify the eventual reduction of U.S. forces in Iraq (to take the heat off...
